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An Iranian parliamentarian has dismissed reports that indicate a trip to Iran by Russian President Vladimir Putin has been timed to coincide with his US counterpart Joe Biden’s tour of the West Asia region.
Iran’s navy commander says the recent unveiling of naval groups capable of carrying drones “very significantly” increases naval units’ operational capacity.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will fly to Tehran on Monday afternoon to take part in the 7th summit of the Astana peace talks over Syria crisis.
A Russian delegation has visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice in the last month to examine weapons-capable drones, according to US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and satellite imagery obtained exclusively by CNN. Iran has earlier rejected Sullivan’s claim that Tehran is sending drones to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.
Tehran’s Ambassador to Stockholm Ahmad Masoumifar has said that the Swedish judiciary’s life sentence against Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri was hostile and in support of terrorism.
Iranian police say they have arrested three members of a gang of armed muggers who stole the belongings of passengers from a bus on a road in southwest of the country.
Beijing’s envoy to Tehran slams the US for resorting to unilateral sanctions to exert pressure on other countries, saying China will keep up economic cooperation with Iran despite the American bans imposed on the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian foreign minister, in a phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, has rejected the US national security advisor’s claim that Iran is sending drones to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.
The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has says imported security will not serve the lasting interests of regional countries and that's what all regional countries have realized.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), in a meeting with the president of the Azerbaijan Republic, said Tehran will not allow any outside actors to drive a wedge between the two nations.
Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires in protest at a Swedish court’s sentencing of former Iranian judiciary official Hamid Nouri to life imprisonment on the basis of “unfounded allegations."
The United States will suffer the consequences of even mentioning it will ‘resort to force’ against Iran, a senior Iranian military commander has said, advising Washing to look carefully at the developments in the world and the region.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman warns that a joint US-Israel declaration issued during President Joe Biden’s visit to occupied al-Quds was not just addressed to Iran but to all Muslim and Arab countries, which would have to submit to Tel Aviv’s “military edge.”
Iran’s interior minister says talks are underway with Iraq on the reopening of Khosravi border crossing to facilitate the entry of Iranian pilgrims into the country, as millions of Muslims prepare to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein, the third Shia Imam whose shrine is located in the Iraqi city of Karbala.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and his entourage have wrapped up their three-day tour of Uzbekistan, saying a visa waiver agreement and stepping up trade ties to two billion dollars were among the achievements of the trip.
Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), is in the Azerbaijan Republic for talks with senior officials of the neighboring country on bilateral issues and major international developments.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says provisions of a Swedish judiciary statement including the illegal court verdict giving life sentence to Hamid Nouri, an Iranian national, is basically unacceptable and questionable.
Iran says it is ready to cooperate with Syria to file a lawsuit with international courts against the countries that launched an aggression on Syria and left the country’s infrastructure and environment in ruins.
Efforts to enforce the law mandating that women in Iran wear a hijab in public should not become a matter of taste or grudge, otherwise it could lead to a bipolar society, Iran’s Etela’at daily has warned.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi renews his call for state institutions to enforce the regulations on hijab and chastity among staff members, but warns that any action to promote the Islamic dress code should lie within the country’s legal framework.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran’s western province of Kermanshah enjoys many capacities that can greatly contribute to the country’s economic sector, including in the fields of agriculture, tourism, and exports.
